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Re:VHDL's Crown Jewel by rzerowan on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:29AM (#47572575)
How does this compare to chisel [1] , i never could get around the whole scala tooling - seemed a bit over the top. Though i guess it is a bit more mature and probably more enterprisey

[1]https://github.com/chipsalliance/chisel

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Re:VHDL's Crown Jewel by Joel_Mckay on Monday March 30, 2026 @07:12AM (#47572825)
> i never could get around the whole scala tooling

scala is popular in places like Alphabet, that apparently allow go & scala projects in production.

However, I agree while scala is very powerful in some ways, it just doesn't have a fun aesthetic. If one has to go spelunking for scalable hardware accelerators, a vendors linux DMA llvm C/C++ API is probably less fragile.

For my simple projects, one zynq 7020 per node is way more than we should ever need. =3

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